So, in theory they should have sent you back to the UK, on taxpayers money, and probably with a police man escorting you to the flight and maybe even on the flight, the costs for deporting people is really high. While waiting for the flight they would have had to put you imprison you, to ensure you wouldn't just run away - prison cells is a limited resource, and it's costly to keep people in jail.
Once you would have been back in the UK, you would be a free man, and you could (if you still have a passport - and the police officers have no reason to believe anything else) return to Norway without any practical problems and even completely legally - and considering that your friend would just take temporary care of your dogs during your absence, it's extremely probable that you would come back.
Again, just like previous time, I think the police officers were discussing a bit ... "is it really worth wasting so much taxpayers money on nothing?" ... "Nah ... this is totally pointless, let him be".
Of course, situation would have been quite different if you wouldn't have had the right to immediately return to Norway.
Yeh i guess that they weighed up the amount of work,cost and paperwork and thought better of it. I find it terribly sad that our luck in life all depends on the country we were born in
Paperwork yeah, I forgot about that one. Perhaps in some jurisdictions the police officers would get a bonus depending on how many aliens they deport or how many criminals they arrest. In other jurisdictions the police officers would have expected to get a small bribe for letting you be. In Norway, the police officers would consider that they would have to spend several hours of their personal work time doing paperwork and transporting you to a prison cell. I bet the thinking also goes a bit like ... is this the reason why I chose to become a police officer? When I get old and look back on my life - is this something I will be proud of doing?. Hell no, deporting you is just plain silliness, that's why you didn't get deported.
Or, maybe ... just maybe (but I hope not) ... this man looks happy that he's getting deported. A trip home to his relatives, a vacation totally free of charge, probably it will be nice for him. We can't be that nice with a criminal, can we? No way, let him stay here in Oslo freezing!
I should get hold of the recorded interview from a trainee policeman who came in the office last week from the police academy, he asked if he could interview me anomously lol.. he got a good run for his money ..
the police in england began to let us go for hash and weed after some years because if they arrested me with say a gram on me then that would entale over half a days paper work lol :)
differnet cultures are madness, i mean the police culture!
edit , forgot the last bit! i was actually happy to get deported and yeh i think thats also why lol. plus they thought "poor guy claiming no benifits, has resorted in a last hope of selling the renound junkie magerzine to live in this expensive country" hahahhahahha